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Fringey Mini - Old story, older meat · Journey to the Fringe

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  I'm feeling really happy with this mini that
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  I have for you all this week, and I've been too
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  on my mini game, and I'm not telling you that
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  it's gonna be a bad mini. with me saying that
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  I've been too on it. I just needed to come back
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  to my Chelsea roots because I was too on it and
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  continue to stay on it. You guys all know what
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  I'm saying. This one is from routers. Reuters.
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  How do you say it? Reuters is how I say it. Reuters.
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  None of my first two choices. No, it does not
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  seem like it should say that. I'm going to start
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  with the title of it first before I hit you with
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  the date. China sees us. 483 million of smuggled
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  meat, some 40 years old, China daily. This is
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  from June 23rd, 2015. I wonder if they're still
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  letting any of that meat age. I have to tell
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  you where I got this from. It's relevant, I think.
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  I was scrolling Reddit, as I do, and somebody
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  was asking if their meat was okay that their
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  dad had in the freezer for 40 years. And I don't
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  know why I was reading the comments. in this
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  reddit about old meat in a freezer because i
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  don't even eat meat but yet here i am probably
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  2am scrolling reddit and this is what catches
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  my eye and someone linked this up so it all got
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  us to where we needed to be so let's just read
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  the fucking article shanghai Chinese customs
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  have seized around 3 billion yuan worth of smuggled
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  meat some more than 40 years old and rotting,
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  the official China Daily said on Wednesday, the
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  latest in a grim series of food safety scares.
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  Beijing toughened food safety rules in April
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  to shake off a reputation for safety scandals
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  that range from donkey meat tainted with fox
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  DNA to milk contaminated with industrial chemical
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  malamine that killed at least six infants in
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  2008. Oh geez. Yeah, Chinese authorities have
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  launched a crackdown on beef and frozen meat
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  smuggling in addition to a campaign last year
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  to stamp out the smuggling of farm products.
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  Can we just stop for a second? It's gotta be
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  one of the toughest things you can pro - possibly
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  smuggle frozen meats. Yeah, I think that's why
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  there was such a discrepancy in quality. Is that
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  the way you would put it? I guess maybe they're
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  just saying, I feel like China at one point,
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  they just said, are you kidding me? We have a
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  frozen meat smuggling problem. That should be
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  like the easiest thing to crack down on. Let's
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  just crack down on it. Yeah. I mean, if they're
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  really holding a gun to my head, I mean, yeah,
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  let's just crack down on the frozen rotten meat
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  problem we have. Either somebody is like really
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  cold moving this gross meat or they have a giant
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  refrigeration truck. Like it should be pretty
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  easy to do. Coming across the border, right?
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  And apparently it was coming from like wartime
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  Vietnam. Let's read on. Authority. Had busted
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  21 criminal gangs by June. There's a black market
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  for this apparently. The problems with meats
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  in China, they're immense. Canada doesn't have
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  it. We have our own food smuggling problems.
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  There was that huge maple syrup hijack that happened
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  a couple years ago. You can keep talking, I'm
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  just gonna find the headline for you. Just like
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  China has a very Chinese meat problem. Authorities
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  had busted 21 criminal gangs by June. by June,
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  leading to seizures of more than 100 ,000 tons
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  of smuggled meat, including chicken wings, beef
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  and pork, state news agency Xinhua said. In one
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  bust, police in southern Hunan province arrested
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  20 people. Customs found some of the meat was
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  more than 40 years old, meaning it dated back
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  to the 1970s. Other parts were rotten and decomposing.
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  How do you age test that? It might have been
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  labeled. Like best before? Yeah. I feel like
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  40 years ago, especially in that part of the
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  world, did not have best before dates. I don't
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  know. It's hard to say. Maybe judge it like a
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  tree and it's how many rings are around it in
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  freezer burntness. Maybe it's just that decomposed
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  that they tracked it back to the 70s. I don't
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  know. Maybe it goes on. You've got to assume
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  at least for some portion of it, it was frozen.
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  Maybe here. So maybe this is the key. Hold on.
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  Just listen to this. Other parts were rotten
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  and decomposing. The China Daily newspaper said
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  it was multiple outlets covered this. It was
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  not clear if the seized meat had been destroyed.
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  That's what I wanted to hear. This is 2015, people.
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  It was smelly. We gotta assume at some point
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  since then it has been either destroyed or eaten.
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  Quote, it was smelly and I nearly threw up when
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  I opened the door, end quote, administration
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  official Zhang Tao told the newspaper. Industry
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  sources say hundreds of thousands of tons of
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  beef is being smuggled into China via neighboring
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  Hong Kong and Vietnam, from countries such as
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  Brazil and India, to sidestep Beijing's import
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  curbs. Yike! Meat can last for a long time if
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  continuously frozen, but smuggled meat is often
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  moved under poor storage conditions that lead
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  to repeated thong, making it eventually go bad.
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  They don't say exactly how many years it takes
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  to go that bad, though. Quote, to save costs,
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  smugglers often hire ordinary vehicles instead
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  of refrigerated ones. So the meat is often thawed
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  out several times before reaching customers,
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  end quote Yang Bao, an anti -smuggling official
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  in Changsha, told the paper. That's my article
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  for today. This is, for the record, three years
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  after I went to China. A little bit disturbing
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  for me. I hope I didn't eat donkey meat because
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  I was eating meat at that time. I don't care
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  if it's 2015, I couldn't not share that article
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  with you guys. No, and if it makes you feel any
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  better at least that donkey was spliced with
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  fox meat so you weren't just eating a donkey.
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  I had so many questions about that donkey fox.
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  There's not a 0 % chance that it wasn't wooly
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  mammoth meat that people were being proposed
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  they were getting. Okay, what would you rather
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  eat? You eat meat, though. The wooly mammoth
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  or donkey fight? I can't even say that without...
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  I gotta say Donkey Fox. All the stories of people
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  actually getting wooly mammoth meat just sounds
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  so disgusting. I mean, it could be from like
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  one of those ones they're trying to de -extinct,
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  but I really don't want to go that way to get
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  meat. That's true. And it kind of conjures up
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  the same feelings within me. The smuggled meat
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  versus extinct meat. But everybody does want
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  wooly mammoth meatballs in the polls. Everybody
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  does want wooly mammoth meatballs. That's just
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  a fact. That's a total fact. Even the vegetarians
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  among us. It's true. I would love a woolly mammoth
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  meatball. Anyhow, you guys got 48 hours. Go find
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  some woolly mammoth meatballs and or some donkey
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  fox meat and just let us know. I don't know what
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  you're gonna let us know, but let us know. Bye.
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  Bye.